2023 Most Popular Colleges for Surveying Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Surveying Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 73 people earned their degree in surveying engineering, making the major the 1109th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 12 surveying engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Surveying Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in surveying engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular surveying engineering programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Surveying Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Most Well Attended Surveying Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region surveying engineering students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Surveying Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

1

Ferris State University
Big Rapids, Michigan

$47,887 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,892 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ferris State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Surveying Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Ferris is a public institution located in Big Rapids, Michigan. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 10 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Surveying Engineering at Ferris State University

2

Michigan Technological University
Houghton, Michigan

#22 overall quality in Great Lakes

$60,470 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,210 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Surveying Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan Technological University landed the #2 spot on the list. Houghton, Michigan is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s surveying engineering degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Michigan Technological University Surveying Engineering Report

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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